Introduction : Space for women : a problem deferred. It's about time : a brief history of women in space. Bottled up : inner and outer space in I dream of Jeannie. Staying home : astronaut wives and domestic engineering. Chimpanzees in space and Gorillas in the mist. The astronaut's new clothes : naked in space in Nude on the moon, Barbarella, and Alien. Making contact. First contact. Conclusion : Black holes and the body of the astrophysicist.